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Turahalli Forest

Sagar Sakre · CC BY-SA 3.0

25% trees around it and 400 species recorded.

36Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km25%
  • wild within 10 km44%
  • species recorded400
  • Altitude916 m

The forest around

25% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 44%Shrubland 37%Grassland 4%Cropland 5%Built-up 10%Trees 22%Shrubland 20%Grassland 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 9%Built-up 42%Trees 23%Shrubland 16%Grassland 5%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 10%Built-up 44%Trees 20%Shrubland 13%Grassland 7%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 43%25%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km44%
  • 1–3 km22%
  • 3–6 km23%
  • 6–10 km20%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees22%
  • Shrubland20%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland9%
  • Built-up42%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

400 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Mango
MangoMangifera indica93 recordsWalter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by John Smith (1798 - 1888) · Public domain
Jackfruit tree
Jackfruit treeArtocarpus heterophyllus78 recordsChirocca77 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pongamia
PongamiaPongamia pinnata72 recordsFrancisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain
Wild date palm
Wild date palmPhoenix sylvestris61 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Indian almond
Indian almondTerminalia catappa47 recordsJudgefloro · Public domain
Strawberrytree
StrawberrytreeMuntingia calabura46 recordsJudgefloro · CC0
Templetree
TempletreePlumeria rubra42 recordsZachi Evenor and MathKnight · CC BY 2.0
Kadam
KadamNeolamarckia cadamba40 recordsThis work was made by Tushar Hossain and released under the license(s) stated below. Pleas · CC BY-SA 4.0
Purging Cassia
Purging CassiaCassia fistula38 recordsDelonix · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vachellia nilotica
Vachellia niloticaVachellia nilotica37 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rain tree
Rain treeSamanea saman33 recordsBasile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cluster fig
Cluster figFicus racemosa29 recordsLưu Ly · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

36out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 25%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 44%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 400Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 916 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in December.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan29°14°2 mm
  2. Feb32°15°4 mm
  3. Mar35°19°17 mm
  4. Apr35°21°57 mm
  5. May33°21°110 mm
  6. Jun29°20°76 mm
  7. Jul28°19°100 mm
  8. Aug28°19°112 mm
  9. Sep28°19°152 mm
  10. Oct27°18°141 mm
  11. Nov26°16°56 mm
  12. Dec26°14°15 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Turahalli Forest.

Forest in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Turahalli Forest is a forest in India, 916 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 25% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 44% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

400 species have been recorded around it: 120 plants, 2 fungi, 277 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Mango, Jackfruit tree and Pongamia.

The best time to walk is in December.

Temple near the view-point in Turahalli Forest
Sagar Sakre · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Turahalli Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmSacred Neem tree, Rain Tree
  • 35shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmCity Viewpoint and 3 more
  • 38car parks within 3 km
  • 209places to stay within 10 kmPai Vijay, Canara Bank Holiday Home, BVSS Maharatta Hostel and 206 more
  • 44restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Turahalli Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Shrungagiri Sri Shanmukha Swamy Temple3.5 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Madiwala Lake0.4 km² · 10 kmBegur Lake0.3 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, BengaluruBortle 9 · 13 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Thottikallu8.5 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Sunrise at Turahalli Forest
Csyogi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aerial view near BSK 6th stage (2025) 13
Gpkp · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aerial view near BSK 6th stage (2025) 14
Gpkp · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Turahalli Forest

India

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 400Species

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore

India · 10 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 24%Wild
  • 304Species

See the guide

Dodda Alada Mara

India · 14 km

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 109Species

See the guide

South Western Ghats montane rain forests

India · 306 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 312Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q19899050) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species407,789 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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